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Post by chris on Sept 5, 2011 6:00:04 GMT -5
Unbelievable that the Feds are going after Gibson for using wood from India on their guitars. Gibson makes the best guitars, all american made and employs 1000 of workers which helps our economy and the governement is attacking them. What is going wrong in this country. More and more it is becoming less and less the land of the free and we are becoming fearful of government and they try taking over this country. Something is not right here.
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Post by firstamendment on Sept 5, 2011 6:31:13 GMT -5
Perhaps it is the type of wood they use that gives Gibsons the sound they have. If I were the government, I'd be more concerned with companies that outsource and/or ship jobs overseas rather than worry about where they get the raw materials. Hell, the Big 3 automakers get plenty of parts from foreign suppliers, so if Big brother really wants to crack down on Gibson, then they've got even bigger fish to fry.
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Post by corner on Sept 5, 2011 7:03:10 GMT -5
the government indicated to gibson they wouldnt have a problem if they outsurced the making of the necks to the country that supplies the wood..
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Post by firstamendment on Sept 5, 2011 7:42:57 GMT -5
the government indicated to gibson they wouldnt have a problem if they outsurced the making of the necks to the country that supplies the wood.. Which would be even worse than simply buying the raw materials outside the US. Of course, when we are talking about the US Government's logic, nothing surprises me anymore. |
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Post by dgriffin on Sept 5, 2011 8:29:53 GMT -5
The Gibson case is no surprise. The typical age of mid-level management in decision making positions in the U.S. government is 45 years of age. That would mean he or she graduated from high school in 1984, the same year as the huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India. Love Canal was the lead news story for months, if not years in the early 80's. Leaded gasoline was named the pollution culprit and ethanol was mandated in fuel. Notable environmental figures were assassinated in Brazil when they spoke out against development in the Amazon. And the animal rights movement succeeded in getting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to commission a study on "American Attitudes Toward and Knowledge of Animals," in recognition of a " a generational shift in attitudes" from the utilitarian view of animals by our ancestors to a "more empathic view" among those who are more sensitive about such things.
So, aside from the remote possibility that our government would act as thoiugh it democratically represents an entire people, I'm not surprised the agencies have found for the Muppets and the Disco generation.
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